Labeling-machine.



No; 722,035. PATENTED MAR. 3, 1903. E. T. MoKAIG.

LABELING- MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 23, 1901.

no MODEL. 4 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

No. 722,035. PATENTED'MAR; s, 1903 E. T. MQKAIG.

LABELING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 23, 1901. no MODEL. 4 sums-sunny z.

n4: mam: PETERS w" mmmuwu. wASnmF-Tun. u. c.

. 'T. MGKAIG. I LABELING. MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 23, 1901.

PATHNTED MAR. 3', 1903-.

H0 MODEL. i SHEETS-SHEET 8.

"lb ullu l n1: norms PETERS ca. Primoumo" wnsnmumu, n4 0.

PATENTED MAR. 3,1903;

B. T. MOKAIG. LABELING MACHINE. Arrmonlonrnnn nov. 2a, 1901.

(sums-sank 4.

xo uonnn.

UNITED STATES Parent Prion.

EDDY T. MCKAIG, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO 11. A. \VHEELER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MACHINE.

S'PECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 722,035, dated March 3, 1903.

Application filed November 23, 1901- gerial No. 83,421. (No model.)

To ttZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDDY T. MOKAIG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Labeling-Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates more particularly to that class of labeling-machines in which the bottles or other objects to be labeled are fed consecutively under three pressure pads, which serve, respectively, for applying paste to the object, placing the label upon the pastecoated surface, and finally pressing the label adhering to the said surface, so as to force out the wrinkles and cause perfect adhesion. One of the great objections to-machines of this character is that the pressure of these pads upon the bottle often breaks it and causes the fragments and contents to fall into the paste trough or receptacle, and thereby spoil the paste.

One of the important objects of my invention, therefore, is to so construct and arrange the parts that the paste-trough will be to one side of the line of movement of the bottle, so that in the event the bottle breaks the fragments and contents will not fall into the trough or otherwise interfere with the perfect operation of the machine.

Another object of my invention is to arrange the label box or holder to one side of the line of movement of the bottle and provide improved means for conducting the labels one at a time from such holder and pressing them against the bottle at a point removed from the label-holder, so that in the event the bottle should break during such pressure the contents will not be spilled over the supply of labels.

Other objects of my invention are to improve and simplify the construction of labeling-machines of this character, whereby labels may be rapidly applied and the parts of the machine may be readily adjusted to accommodate various sizes of bottles or other objects to be labeled.

\Vith these ends in view my invention consists in certain features of novelty by which the said objects and certain other objects hereinafter appearing are attained, all as fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved labeling-machine. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the cranks and pads carried thereon for respectively applying the paste, sticking the label, and pressing the label, as will be hereinafter explained. Fig. 8 is a front or end elevation of the machine. Fig. t is a detail perspective view of the paste-grid, hereinafterdescribed. Fig. 5 is a detail side elevation of one of the sprocket-wheels and chain thereon. Fig. 6 is an end elevation of part of the ma chine looking in the opposite direction from the view taken in Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a detail transverse section of the paste-applying pad. Fig. 8 isa transverse sectional view of the label-applying pad with one of its supporting-stems. Fig. 9 is a transverse sectional view of a part of the machine, taken on a line 9 9, Fig. 1, on an enlarged scale. Fig. 10 is a perspective view of the upper end of the label box or holder, and Fig. 11 is a transverse sectional view of a portion thereof.

1 is a fiat table upon which the bottles rest and along which they slide while receiving successively the paste, the label, and the necessary pressure for causing the label to adhere. This table 1 is supported by any suitable frame 2 and is provided along the line of movement of the bottle 3 with a number of parallel slots 4 5 6, projecting upwardly, through which at one end of the table are three sprocket-wheels 7 8 0, respectively, and at the other end three sprocket-wheels 10 11 12, respectively. The sprocket-wheels 7 8 9 are mounted loosely upon a front shaft 13, supported in the side members of the frame 2, while the other three sprocket-wheels 1O 11 12 are mounted upon a rear shaft 14:, rotatably mounted in such frame members. The outside sprocketwheels 1O 12, however, are secured by keys 15 or other suitable means to the shaft 14, while the intermediate sprocketwheel 11 is loose upon the shaft 14, as clearly shown in Fig. 9. The sprocket-wheels 7 10 are connected together by sprocket-chain 16, the sprocket-wheels 811 by sprocket-chain 17,

too

and the sprocket-wheels 9 12 by sprocketchain 18, and these chains 16 17 18 or any other suitable belts which may be employed in their stead are provided, respectively, with lugs 19 2O 21, projecting upwardly therefrom, so as to protrude through the aforesaid slots in the table 1 and travel along said slots above the plane of the table as the sprocket-Wheels are rotated. Theselu gs 19 20 21 are arranged quincuncially or staggered and constitute at once means for gaging the proper position of the bottle when placing it in the machine and for advancing the bottle along the table, the lugs 19 21 on the outside chains being so arranged as to engage the bottle on one side while one of the lugs 20 on the, middle chain engages it on the other side, thereby determining the position of the bottle with reference to the labeling mechanism and holding it squarely upon the table during its advancement through the machine. The position of the ends of the bottle may be gaged and the bottle held against longitudinal movement that is, movement transversely of the chains by two guides 22 23, secured to the upper side of the table 1, parallel with the slots therein at opposite ends of the bottle, so that the bottom of the bottle will slide along one while the shoulder of the bottle will slide along the other, the guide 23 in the example of the invention shown in the drawings being formed complementary in shape to such shoulder. These guides 22 23 may be made adjustable transversely of the table, so as to adapt them for bottles of difierent lengths. This may be accomplished by providing the table with slots 24 25 at or near each end of each of the guides 22 23 for the passage of set-screws 26 27, which clamp the guides to the table.

In order that the distance between the lugs 19 21 on the outside chains and the next adjacent lug 20 on the middle chain may be va ried at will to adapt the device for bottles of different widths, the middle sprocket-wheels are made adjustable relatively to the outside sprocket-wheels in any suitable way that will permit of this relative adjustment of the lugs. In the. example shown in the drawings the middle sprocket-wheel 11 is provided with a boss 28 on one side, which is adjustably secured to outside sprocket-wheel 10 by a set- -screw 29, which passes through a slot 30 in sprocket Wheel 10, so that the middle sprocket-wheel 11 may be rotated relatively to the outside sprocket-wheels 1O 12 until the lugs arrive at the desired position and then locked against independent rotation and compelled to revolve in unison with the other sprocket-wheels.

Rotary motion is imparted to the front shaft 14 for causing the lugs on the sprocket-chains to travel along the slots in the table and advance the bottles with an intermittent movement, bringing them successively under the pads for respectively applying the paste, sticking the label to the pasted surface, and pressing the label, as will be presently described, by means of a dog 31, which is pivoted to an arm 32, journaled loosely upon one end of shaft 14 behind a notched wheel 33, suitably connected to the shaft and having a number of notches 34 in the periphery thereof, into which the dog 31 successively engages as the arm 32 is oscillated, and thereby imparts intermittent rotation to the shaft 14 and through the described mechanism moves the lugs 19 2O 21 with a step-by-step or intermittent motion along the slots of the table, each step motion being equal to the distance which the bottle has to travel from one of the aforesaid pads to the other. Inasmuch, however, as the bottle at the end of each of these movements must be directly under the center of the pad and the adjustment of the middle chain 17 decreases or increases the distance from such center to the next adjacent lug 20 on such chain without correspondingly decreasing or increasing the distance from such center to the lugs 19 21 on the outside chains, it is obvious that in order to maintain this central position of the bottle with relation to the pad throughout all adjustments ofthe intermediate lugs 20 for the various-sized bottles the sprocket-wheels 1O 12 must also be adjustable rotatively with relation to the notched wheel 33, whose position at the end of each stroke of the arm 32 must always be the same with relation to the dog 31. Consequently the notched wheel 33 is loose upon the shaft 14 and is in operative connection therewith through the intermediary of a keyed disk 35, secured on the end of the shaft, and having a slot 36, through which passes a set-screw 37, threaded in the Wheel 33, for adjustably clamping wheel 33 to disk 35. Thus it will be seen that when the middle sprocket-wheel 11 is adjusted with relation to the outer sprocket-wheels for carrying lug 20 a certain distance away from the center of the aforesaid pad, or nearer to such center, as the case may be, the set-screw 37 will be loosened and the outside sprocketwheels turned until the lugs 19 21 are moved the same distance toward or from such center. When the arm 32 moves in one direction, the notched wheel 33 is rotated and the bottles advanced, and when it moves in the opposite direction the dog 31 releases the wheel 33 and returns a sufficient distance to engage in the next one of the notches 34. This movement is imparted to the arm and dog by a link 38, which is pivoted at one end to one arm of the dog 31, which is in the form of a bell-crank lever, and at the other end to a downwardly-extending arm 39 on an operating-lever 40, which is pivoted at 41 to the main frame and extends horizontally to a position convenient to the hand of the operator.

In Fig. 4 is shown a paste-grid comprising a number of parallel bars 42, supported by a skeleton frame 43, to which is secured a lip or flange 44, which is rigidly attached to a lug 45 on a standard 46, supported on the main frame, and arranged below this pastegrid is apaste trough or receptacle 47, mounted upon a stem 48, running in guides 49 and having its lower end pivoted at 50 to the lower end of a link 51, whose upper end is pivoted to operating-lever 40, so that each time the latter is raised the paste-grid 42 43 will be submergedin the paste in the trough, the flange or lip 44 having a downwardlyprojecting arm 52, which holds the grid below the upper edge of the paste-trough when the latter is elevated. When the lever 40 is depressed, the trough will be lowered, leaving the grid 42 in a relatively elevated position with its bars coated with paste ready for contact with a paste-applying pad 53, which alternately moves into engagement with the paste-grid and the bottle. This pad 53 is provided with a pair of stems 54, extending upwardly and loosely through opposite ends of a journal-box 55, which is journaled upon crank-pin 56, connecting a pair of cranks 57 58 on a crank-shaft 59. The upper ends of these stems 54 pass through opposite ends of a journal-box 60, journaled upon crank pin 61, connecting a pair of cranks 62 on a crank shaft 63, arranged above and parallel with and similar in construction and dimensions to the crank-shaft 59. (Shown in detail in Fig. 2.) Each of the arms 54 at a point between the boxes 60 is provided with a collar or shoulder 64, and sleeved upon each of the stems between these shoulders and the under side of the box 60 is a spiral spring 65, through the medium of which the paste-pad is pressed against the bottle 3 by the box 60 as the cranks 62 move downwardly, or toward the left as viewed in Fig. 3, thus applying the paste with the requisite pressure without danger of breaking the bottle. The shafts 59 63 are journaled in suitable journal-boxes 66 67, respectively, on standard 46 and a similar standard 68 at the opposite ends of these shafts, (see Fig. 1,) and the shafts 59 63 are provided, respectively, with cog-wheels or pinions 69 70, with which engages an upright rack-bar 71, held in position by a suitable guide 72, secured to the standard 46 near the upper end of the rack-bar, so that as the rack-bar is raised and lowered the shafts 59 63 will be simultaneously rotated and the crankpins 56 61 oscillated from left to right and right to left, whereby the paste-pad 53 will be carried first into contact with the paste-grid 42 and then against the bottle. This rising-and-falling movement is imparted to the rack bar 71 substantially in unison with the movement of the sprocket-chains by the hand-lever 40 through the agency of a connecting-link 73, pivoted to the rack-bar near its lower end at 74.

In order to avoid the possibility of the bottle adhering to the paste-pad 53, either by suction or by the adhesiveness of the paste, such pad may be provided in its under face with a releasing-pin 74, adapted to be forced upwardly into a recess 75 in the lower face of pad 53 as the pad descends against the bottle, but which pin is forced outwardly and holds the bottle down while the pad rises by means of a spring or cushion 76, arranged between the lower headed end of pin 74 and the web 77 in the recess 75, the upper end of pin 74 being passed through said web and provided with a head 78 for preventingits dislodgment.

79 is the label carrying and applying pad shown in detail in Fig. 8. This pad is mounted upon the lower ends of two stems 80, which pass loosely through two journal-boxes 81 82, mounted upon crank pins 56 61, respectively, like the journal-boxes 55 60, and upon each of the stems S0 is secured or formed a shoulder 83, between which and the under side of the upper box 82 is a coil-spring 84, which by bearing against the shoulder 83 and taking its abutment under the box 82 serves to impart the downward movement of the crank 62 to the pad 79 with a yielding pressure, so as to force the label into close contact with the paste-coated surface of the bottle and at the same time avoid an excessive degree of pressure liable to break the bottle. The pad 79 is hollow, as shown in Fig. 8, and its lower face is provided throughout with a number of perforations 79 and the hollow interior of this pad is connected in any suitable way to a suction pump or exhauster 85, whose piston-rod is constituted by the lower end of the rack-bar 71, so that each time the operating-handle 40 is elevated the air will be exhausted from the pad 79, and should the pad at this time be resting in contact with the surface of the labels the uppermost one of the latter will be drawn into close adhesion thereto and held thereagainst as long as the vacuum or partial vacuum is maintained, and consequently the labels may be carried one at a time from a label holder or box 86 to the bottle and pressed against the paste-coated surface of the latter as the crank shafts 59 to 63 are oscillated from left to right, as viewed in Fig. 3. This connection between the pump and the pad 79 is preferably effected by means of a flexible tube 87, connected to the lower end of the pump-cylinder and having a fork orY 88 at its upper end, connected to the stems 80, which are hollow. The label-box 86 is also supported on the side of the machine, to one side of the line of movement of the bottle across the table 1, and it is open at top and bottom, but contains a movable follower 89, supported upon the upper end of a rack-bar 90, which is engaged by a pinion 91 on shaft 92 of wormwheel 93. Worm-wheel 93 is engaged and rotated by worm 94, secured to ratchet-wheel 95, shaft 92 and ratchet-wheel 95 beingjonrnaled in a bracket 96 supported on the main frame. The ratchet 95 is given a step-by-step rotation at each operation of the machine for the purpose of raising the follower 89 a distance equal to the thickness of one label by means of a pawl 97, mounted upon an arm 98, pivoted upon the shaft 94- of worm 94 and having pivotal connection with the pawl 97, which latter is pivoted to the lower end of a link 99, whose upper end is secured to an extension 100 of lever 40, the extension 100 being provided with a slot 101, through which passes a set-screw 102 for attaching the link 99 to the extension 100 at various distances from the center 41, so that the extent of elevation of the follower at each operation of the lever40 may be varied for adapting the mechanism to various thicknesses of labels. The upper end of the labelbox 86 is provided with a number of scrapers 103 in the formof inwardly-bent strips or springs, having their inner faces roughened or serrated and slightly overhanging the edges of the box, so that in the event more than one label should be elevated from the pile by the label-carrier pad 79 all but the one in immediate contact with the pad would be scraped off and fall back into the box.

104 is a pressure-pad, whose office is to press the label firmly into contact with the bottle after it has been applied thereto by the suction-pad 79, and it is so positioned with relation to the latter pad that when the next bottle reaches the suction-pad the one leaving the latter will come directly under the pressure-pad. The pressure-pad is mounted on the lower end of a stem 105, which passes through the outer ends of two parallel arms 106 107, mounted loosely upon shafts 59 63, respectively, and to these arms 106 107 the stem 105 is connected by means of pins 108 109, passing through the stem, the stem being provided with a vertical slot 110 where the pin 108 passes through, so that the stem will have a slight vertical movement independently of the arm 106, thus enabling the arm 106 to be supported by a spring 111, having its lower end attached to the arm and its upper end attached to the under side of arm 107 near shaft 63, and to be capable of producing pressure against the pad 104 through the medium of a spring 112, sleeved on the stem 105 between the pad and the lower side of arm 106. When the pressure of arm 106 is relieved from spring 112, the springs 111 112 conjointly act to return the pin 108 to the upper end of slot 110, and the spring 111 continues to act in elevating both arms 106 107 and stem 105, with the pad 104 thereon, a sufficient distance above the table 1 to insure against the next bottle striking the pad. This downward pressure of the arm 106 against spring 112 is induced bya finger 113, projecting laterally from crank 58 (see Figs. 1 and 2) and arranged to strike a boss 114 on the upper edge of arm 106.

If desired, the machine may be provided with a treadle 115, normally supported by spring 116 and connected by rod 117 to the arm 100 of hand-lever 40 for the purpose of assisting in the upward movement of said lever.

With the construction thus described it will be seen that when the handle 40 is depressed the paste box or receptacle 47 will be lowered, and the pads 53 79 will be carried from their position on the left (shown in Fig. 3) to a diametrically opposite position on the right, directly over and in contact with pastegrid 42 and labels in the label-holder 86, respectively, and when the handle 40 is again raised the pump or exhauster 85 will cause one of thelabels to adhere to the pad 79, which will carry it over and press it upon the bottle, which is advanced from the position directly under the paste-pad 53 to a position directly under thelabel-pad 79, this advancing motion of the bottle being produced, as will be understood, by the upward motion of the arm 39 forcing dog 31 into engagement with one of the notches 34, and thereby rotating all of the sprocket-wheels and causing the lugs on the chains to advance all of the bottles then upon the table. It will be noted, however, from Fig. 1 that the initial or starting position of the dog 31 is a little below the next notch which it meets in its upward travel, so that before the bottles are advanced the pads 53 79 will be raised out of contact with the bottles, and the vacuum in the pad 79 will not only be destroyed, but the label will be forced from the pad by the pressure of air therein induced by the downward motion of the piston in exhauster 85, which takes place during the time that the dog 81 is approaching the notch 34 immediately above it. This method of detaching the label from the suction-pad 79 is preferable to providing an automatic relief-valve which will break the vacuum as soon as the pad places the label firmly upon the bottle. The movement of chains in thus advancing the bottles is limited by a stop 103, which is arranged on the main frame in position to be struck by the dog 31.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a labeling-machine, the combination of a support for the object to be labeled, a se ries of belts having lugs arranged quincuncially or staggered for advancing the object to be labeled along said support and means for applying the label to said object while being thus advanced, substantially as set forth.

2. In-a labeling-machine the combination of a support for the object to be labeled, aseries of belts having lugs for advancing the said object along said support, the lugs on one of said belts being adjustable relatively to those on the other whereby the distance between the lugs on one belt and those on the other may be varied for adapting to suit different-sized objects to be labeled, and means for applying the label to the object while being advanced along said support, substantially as set forth.

3. In a labeling-machine the combination of a support for the object to be labeled, a plurality of belt-wheel's, belts connecting said wheels together in pairs and having lugs extending above said support for advancing the object to be labeled t-herealong, one wheel of one of said pairs being rotatably adjustable relatively to the wheels of another pair, whereby the distance between said lugs may be varied, and means for applying the label to the object while being advanced along said support, substantially as set forth.

4. In a labeling-machine, the combination of a support for the object to be labeled, a

plurality of belt-wheels, belts connecting said wheels together in pairs and having lugs extending above said support for advancing the object to be labeled therealong, one wheel of one of said pairs being rotatably adjustable with relation to the other wheels, means for applying the label to the said object while advancing along said support, and means for impartingintermittentrotation tosaid wheels, substantially as set forth.

5. In a labeling-machine the combination of a plurality of series of lugs for engaging and advancing the object to be labeled, one of said series of lugs being adjustable relatively to the others whereby the distance between the lugs of one series and those of another may be varied to suit difierent-sized objects tobelabeled,meansforapplyingthelabel to the said object while held between said lugs, a power-transmitting means for imparting a step-by-step or intermittent motion to said lugs and means adjustably connecting part of said power-transmitting means with said series of lugs, substantially as set forth.

6. In a labeling-machine the combination of a support for the object to be labeled, a plurality of belt-wheels, belts connecting said wheels together in pairs and having lugs extending above said support for advancing the object to be labeled therealong, one wheel of one of said pairs being rotatably adjustable relatively to the other wheels, means for applying a label to the object to be labeled while held between said lugs, a power-transmitting means for imparting intermittent rotation to said wheels, and means adjustably connecting part of said power-transmitting means with said wheels, substantially as set forth.

7. In a labeling-machine the combination of a support for the object to be labeled, means for advancing said object along said support with an intermittent movement, a paste-receptacle arranged to one side of the line of movement of said object, a paste-pad, upper and lower normally parallel crankarms connected with said pad for the moving or throwing over said pad transversely of the support across the advancing means from said paste-receptacle to the object to be labeled over said support, and means for oscillating said arms alternately in opposite directions, substantially as set forth.

8. In a labeling-machine the combination of a support for the object to be labeled, a paste-receptacle arranged to one side of said support, a paste-pad for applying paste to the object to be labeled While on said support, lower and upper parallel crank-arms pivotally connected to said pad, and means for 0scillating said crank-arms alternately in opposite directions transversely of the support for first causing the pad to approach the pastereceptacle and then contact with the object to be labeled upon said support, substantially as set forth.

9. In a labeling-machine the combination of a support for the object to be labeled, a paste-receptacle arranged to one side of said support, a paste-pad for conveying paste from said receptacle to the object to be labeled on said support, lower and upper parallel crankarms upon which said pad is yieldingly supported and meansfor oscillating said crankarms alternately in opposite directions to cause said pad to move from the paste-receptacle transversely of the support to the object to be labeled upon said support, substantially as set forth.

10. In a labeling-machine the combination of a support for the object to be labeled, a paste-receptacle arranged to one side of said support, parallel crank arms, a paste pad having stems connected with said crank-arms, a spring having abutment against said pad and one of said arms for imparting the pressure of said arm to the pad and means for oscillating said arms horizontallyin opposite directions from the paste-receptacle transversely of and to said support and vice versa, substantially as set forth.

11. In a labeling-machine the combination of a support for the object to be labeled, a vertically-movable paste-receptacle, a relatively fixed paste-grid located therein and means for conveying the paste from said grid to the object to be labeled upon said support, substantially as set forth.

12. In a labeling-machine the combination of a support for the object to be labeled, a vertically-movable paste-receptacle, a relatively fixed paste grid arranged therein, means for conveying the paste from said grid to the object to be labeled upon said support and means operatively connecting the lastsaid means with said paste-receptacle for causing them to operate in time with relation to each other, substantially as set forth.

13. In a labeling-machine the combination of a pair of cranks, a pin connecting said cranks, a plurality of pads journaled upon said pin, for respectively applying the paste and a label to two objects to be labeled, simultaneously, a support for holding a plurality of the objects to be labeled under said pads, means for oscillating said cranks alternatelyin opposite directions, means arranged to one side of said support for applying paste to one of said pads, a label-holder arranged to one side of said support in the line of movement of the other of said pads and means for causing a label to adhere to the latter pad, substantially as set forth.

IIO

14. In a labeling-machine the combination of a label box or holder,scrapers arranged contiguous to the edge of said box or holder for engaging the edges of the labels as they rise therefrom, means for applying paste to the object to be labeled and a label-carrier having an air-exhausting device and provided with a hollow perforated pad adapted to engage the labels in said holder for conveying them therefrom to the object to be labeled, substantially as set forth.

15. In a labeling-machine the combination of a support for the object to be labeled, a label-holder, a hollow label-carrying pad having a hollow stem, a pair of parallel crankarms pivotally connected with said stem, means for oscillating said crank-arms alternately in opposite directions transversely of the support for carrying said pad from said label-holder to said support and vice versa, an air-exhauster and aflexible connection between said exhauster and said hollow stern, substantially as set forth.

16. In a labeling-machine the combination of three pads for respectively applying paste to the object to be labeled, applying the label to the pasted surface of said object and pressing the label against the said object after it is applied, parallel crank-arms pivotal] y connected with the first two of said pads, means for oscillating said crank-arms alternately in opposite directions, a cushioned support for the third one of said pads and means connected wit-h one of said crank-arms for depressing said third pad, substantially as set forth.

17. In a labeling-machine the combination of a label-holder, a follower in said holder for supporting the labels therein, a support for the object to be labeled, means for intermittently advancing said object along said support, an operating-lever for imparting motion to said means, a ratchet-wheel, means operatively connecting said Wheel with said follower, a pawl for rotating said wheel, means adjustably connecting saidpawl with said operating-lever, and means for transferring the label from the holder across the support to the object to be labeled, substantially as set forth.

18. In a labeling-machine the combination of a plurality of belt-wheels, belts connecting said wheels together in pairs and having lugs arranged quincuncially or staggered for engaging and advancingthe object to be labeled, a notched wheel operatively connected with said belt-wheels, an oscillatory dog for engaging the notches of said wheel and imparting an intermittent rotation thereto, a stop for limiting the throw of said dog, means for oscillating said dog, and means for applying the label to the object to be labeled while held between said lugs, substantially as set forth.

EDDY T. MCKAIG.

Witnesses:

F. A. HOPKINS, W. D. (Ross. 

